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No. 766,419. PATENTED AUG. 2,` 1904.

G. J. -BRBGK &G. R. FREEMAN.

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APPLIOATION FILED HOV. 30, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. BRECK AND CLARENCE R. FREEMAN, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming' partof Letters Patent No. 766,419, dated August 2, 1904.

Application ied November 30, 1903. Serial No. 183,184. lNo modeLl Be it known that we, CHARLES J. BREox and CLARENCE R. FREEMAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvesists principally of a cap formed of paper or other thin and fiexible material, as shown in the drawings and as hereinafter described.

The invention also consists in the forni of the blank and in the special construction of the cap, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying' drawings, to which reference is made and which form a part of this specilication, Figure 1 is a side elevation of our new and improved cap.f Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the blank.

In the drawings, 2 3 designates the vertical portion of the cap, and 4 the top. The part 3 is by preference formed with a flap or extension 5, which extends below the lower edge 6 of the vertical part 2. The said vertical parts are centrally attached to the top of the cap by narrow connections 7 8, and from the ends of these connections the material is open or slit, as shown at 9, 10, 11, and 12. Each side of the vertical portion 3 is connected at 13 to the vertical portion 2, preferably by a tongue 14 entering a slot 15, and the said vertical portions are also connected to the top 4 at 16 17, preferably by slot-and-tongue connections 18 19, each of the four connections comprising a tongue 18 and slot 19, and by preference the top 4 is formed with extenl sions 20 21, which are bent down, so that the tongues 18 enter the slots 19 from the outside, thus confining the said extensions 20 21 to the inside of the cap.

The blank is cut in the form shown in Fig. Bnthat is to say, it is formed with the following elements, viz: the main extensions 2 3 and the intermediate portion or section 4, which latter is formed with slots 19 19 at each side of the blank, and the said intermediate section is divided at each side of the blank to form on cach side the parts 2O and 21. The extension 2 is formed with the slots 15 15, and the blank is formed with four tongues 18 to enter the slots 19 19, as shown. The extension 3 is formed with fastening-tongues 14 14 to enter the slots 15 15, as shown, and by preference the blank is formed with the straight edge 6 and with the opposite rounded edge 5. The slots 9, 10, 11, and 12 not being carried through form the two connecting-pieces 7 and 8 in the center line of the blank.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa

1. A blank for a cap comprising the main extensions 2, 3 and theintermediate section 4, the several slots 19, the slots 15, the marginal tongues 18, and the marginal tongues 14, 14, substantially as described.

2. A blank for a cap, comprising the main extensions 2, 3, the intermediate section 4 divided at each sido into two parts 20, 21, slots 19 and 15 and marginal tongues 18 and 14, substantially as described.

CHARLES J. BRECK. CLARENCE R. FREEMAN.

lVitnesses:

CHARLES L. MoFETRIsH, EMANUEL G. BULLARD. 

